Brad Guzan normally handles Aston Villa's cup competition duties, but fellow American Brad Friedel gets the nod today in FA Cup action against Crystal Palace.
Friedel is the starter for Villa today vs. Crystal Palace in the fifth round of the FA Cup. The Fifth Round of the FA Cup could also offer an opportunity for another American, midfielder Stuart Holden, who could make his first-team debut for Bolton when the Wanderers take on Tottenham (or not).
The quality soccer action will also take us to Italy, where Napoli-Inter and Juventus-Genoa, as well as Argentina, where Estudiantes-Independiente will be South America's top tilt.
If you will be watching today's action, please feel free to share your thoughts, opinions and some play-by-play in the comments section below.
Enjoy the action (Today's TV schedule is after the jump):
TODAY'S SOCCER ON TV
8:30am– FSC- Bolton vs. Tottenham (FA Cup)
8:30am– ESPN Deportes/ESPN360.com- Heracles vs. PSV Eindhoven
9am– FSE/RAI/ESPN360.com- Juventus vs. Genoa
9:30am– ESPN360.com- Schalke 04 vs. Cologne
10am– Setanta USA- Fulham vs. Notts County (FA Cup)
10:30am– FSC- Crystal Palace vs. Aston Villa (FA Cup)
11am– ESPN Deportes/ESPN360.com- Espanyol vs. Deportivo La Coruna
11am– GolTV- Bayern Munich vs. Borussia Dortmund (next day delay)
11am– FSC- Bolton vs. Tottenham (FA Cup) (Delayed)
1pm– ESPN2- La Liga Match TBD
1pm– GolTV- Sevilla vs. Osasuna
1pm– ESPN360.com- Sporting Braga vs. Maritimo
1pm– Telemundo- Pumas UNAM vs. Tecos
1pm– FSE- Puebla vs. Pachuca
1pm– ESPN Deportes- Schalke 04 vs. FC Cologne (Delayed)
2pm– GolTV- Santos FC vs. Rio Claro
2:30pm– FSC/FSE/RAI- Napoli vs. Inter Milan
3pm– ESPN Deportes/ESPN360.com- Atletico Madrid vs. Barcelona
3pm– Setanta USA- Bordeaux vs. St. Etienne
3pm– Azteca America- Puebla vs. Pachuca
5pm– FSC- Juventus vs. Genoa (Delayed)
5pm- FSE- Independiente vs. Estudiantes
5:30pm– Univision- Club America vs. Cruz Azul
6:45pm– Sheffield United vs. Bristol City (Delayed)
7pm– FSC- Independiente vs. Estudiantes (Delayed)
Jesus what a shot on Freidel. Crystal Palace smacked the hell out of that
good position on the goal by freddy
Here is the first half of the rangers game for those that missed it:
http://watchsocceronline.blogspot.com/2010/02/watch-beasleys-1st-half-as-rangers.html
Nice passing leading up to both goals, although the GK shoulda stopped the first one. Thanks for posting.
how do you think johnson played?
Youtube video fo Freddy’s goal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr-EId4Waio
Play starts in 52nd second
Hey guys…..for those of you who haven’t heard yet, ADU scored his first goal today for Aris before half time to put his side up 2-1! If him and eddie can continue to get minutes and impress then they should be going to south africa in my opinion!
beasley should be over adu in the depth chart i would think.
Hey guys, in between games and/or at halftimes, check out this US Soccer World Cup trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drVEkhutQOU
Im with u. I want freddy and eddie as the 3rd and 4th strikers too…. But bob will probably want to bring casey or ching
As of now this is our 23
1gk Howard
2gk guzan
3gk hahneman
4rb spector
5rb cherundolo
6cb boca
7cb demerit
8cb gooch
9cb goodson (for now)
10lb bornstein
11lb
12rm dempsey
13rm holden
14cm bradley
15cm clark
16cm edu
17cm feilhaber
18lm donovan
19lm beasley
20fw altidore
21fw davies
22fw ching or casey
23fw adu
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I don’t know about the World Cup but for the Dutch friendly I think that both Adu and Johnson should start because of the injuries and lack of playing time of others.
Johnson with Altidore
Donovan on the right, Adu on the left.
Adu with the nice run and first greek goal!!! Thanks for the post Jose!
Hopefully he gets more regular pt for Aris now…
King is, based on his columns and tv appearances, a humble and cool guy. He’s a wonderful writer and I for one am looking forward to him reporting from SA. I imagine Grant will be writing more of the stories for hard core footie fans, while PK will be writing for many of the casual soccer fans. I think it’s a great move by SI.
Thanks for the clip.
What I would like to see is Freddy run toward the winger who fed him the ball to say thanks and good work getting it into the middle for an easy tap in.
Why is it that goal scorers dont do this more often???
i dont want ching or casey on the team. how bout eddie johnson and freddy adu as the 3rd and 4th strikers?
I was thinking about it last night….. and as of right now only two spots are being discussed by bob bradley… he needs to know who his 4th cb, 2nd lb, and 3rd and 4th strikers are gonna be…..
Goodson has the 4th CB spot for now
no one has the 2nd lb spot
3rd striker spot is between casey and ching
4th striker spot is freddy’s if keeps playing
Aris down to 10 men
Adu and Johnson both out for defensive purposes.
Aris also have a cup game Wednesday might be saving them for that one.
I know it, and if he recaptures his good play from earlier this year and avoids further injury, then that’d be freaking spectacularly helpful.
But he’s just so frail. Did his parents not give him enough milk or something?
so dude mentioned something about bebenino.com as a site that showed greek games but im not sure if that is right
wow i dont think that if freddy had been starting with jozy at the confed cup we would have beat spain…at this rate he should be on the roster but dont even joke about him being a starter yet. the wc is 4 months away nobody knows how the roster is going to shake out ESPECIALLY with the possibily of more injuries, and players not being able to recover from injuries and regain good form. the roster is up in the air i think DBEAS and FREDDY will both be on it though.
Its not just the fact that he has one goal in greece….. he has all the tools required to dominate he just needs time on the field which he is getting and he needs to produce which he is doing…. a goal and a beautiful assist in 3 games played… two of which were starts…. he needs to keep up this production but yah he should start… Davies is coming back from a serious set of injuries… dempsey as well…. Freddy if he keeps starting should start at the world cup… and if you think Jozy and Charlie’s connection on the field was great just go watch the under-20s for how well Jozy and Freddy link up
Wow. One Greek goal and he’s your starter? You must lead a simple life. 😉
Jozy Freddy Up Top…. is the way to go…. Jozy needs foot service and who is better at that than Freddy…. Plus Freddy will occupy so much attention that Jozy will simply physically abuse dudes
i guess we’re gonna see Adu in SA after all. 🙂
Here is the goal by Freddy Adu
http://i45.tinypic.com/iz223l.gif
daniel williams starting at freiburg while it looks like boca is not
yeah that’s not it, that’s some other game.
you always post links to highlights, why can’t you let us know where your watching it?
ALso would like a stream for the Aris game please
im not sure if i have the right link but i found it on myp2p
Aww yeah!
What I say
What I SAY!
Wicked shot
Another try like that and it goes in
Thanks Jose S!
Goal Freddy Adu!!!!!!!!
I will have the gif in second
Aris game 1-1
Here is a gif of a Freddy Adu shot that went just wide
http://i50.tinypic.com/beefwk.gif
Most likely because it’s late in the tourney.
Guzan not starting? Did I miss an injury or something somewhere?
How have Adu and Johnson looked in the Aris-Ergotelis game? Can we PLEASE get a place to watch that by the way?
Yeah, they decided to survive for the replay. Damn good game though. Interesting stuff.
no holden today….
Last sub. No Holden. Oh well — the FA Cup is important to Bolton. Not many kids with zero PL experience would get a run at this point.
Tamir is the wrong guy dudes
Naruto!
Now they’ve used all their subs. no Stu.
Come on Bolton Put in Naruto!
Re-Up your energy
one more left. 82 min.
yeah please? and don’t say the whole link just the part between the ‘www.’ and the ‘.com’. If you do, the bots will shut the link down.
True. I cut him slack because he looks like Norm Peterson.
Anyone have a link for the Aris game?
Have they used all their subs?
I’m not completely clear on how it would work. Would they get included in the PL’s group of teams at the start of a season, and then be liable to get relegated if they finished at the bottom, just like every other team? I’m not sure how long they could last…
damn, Davies on, not Holden.